Dispassionate indicator or evil curse: are some scoring systems for predicting postoperative mortality lethal?

Anaesthesia

Volumn 72, Issue 7, 2017, Pages 905-908

  Pandit, J J ^a  

^a OXFORD UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL AUDIT; HUMAN; MAJOR SURGERY; SCORING SYSTEM; SURGICAL MORTALITY; ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSM; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD;

AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AREA UNDER CURVE; HUMANS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD;

EID: 85020444122     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/anae.13871     Document Type: Article

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